The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-14

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| party must make no mistakes. The nominee for
! Governor must be man who, if elected, will
take the Office though he finds the executive Of
| fee full of DULLES of the Green Smith stripe
/ INDIANA AND CONNECTICUT.
| Logansport journal
| If Indiana shall become the pivot State" in
/ the battle of 1885, the Hoosier Republicans viii
go in to win with an energy of onslaught that
/ York The solid South and New York combina-
/ ton can be beaten--and Will be.
| SIT DOWN on POSTAL TELEGRAPHY
| New Albany Ledger
| The first thing that Congress should sit down
on, and sit down hard, is the proposition Tor
| government control of the telegraph. me
| fewer things that government controls the bet
| ter 1t will be for the happiness and prosperity
| of the people and the life of the Republic.
CAN GET ALONG WITHOUT NEW YORK.
| Warsaw Times.
eve must have a candidate for President in
| 1888 who can carry New York is the exelama-
ton of some misunderstanding Republicans. 1t will
| be much easier to get a candidate who
can carry the solid North, except New
York, than to get one who can carry
that State. 1t is not necessary to carry New
York in order to elect a Republican President
Grant was elected in 1865 and Hayes elected
in 1876 without the help of New York
PERTINENT SUGGESTION.
Columbus Republican.
In view of the New York election the Indian
apolis Journal makes very pertinent sugges
ton. Surprising that State to go the way
next year. where must the Republicans look for
votes to elect PRESIDENT If they can carry the
States they usually do, with Indiana and Con-
necticut. it would be sufficient. Connecticut is
naturally Republican State and Indiana is al
ways doubtful. Senator Hawley carry the
one and Ben Harrison can carry the other
DEMoGoGIsM MUST GO.
New Albany Ledger.
The maudlin sympathy expressed for the men
who planned the wholesale slaughter of women
aud children and the destruction of the great
city of Chicago, is not only out of place, but is
morally criminal. The same sympathy would
as well be extended to the bandith of Italy; to
the Thugs of India; to the Nihilists of Russia,
whose only idea of reform lies in assassination.
This county has put its heel upon anarchism.
Public opinion has condemned socialism. 1t
now remains to wipe the earth with demogogism
and then would have, as Fourth OF July
orators boast, "the best government upon which
the sun ever shone.
SOME RESULTS OF CLEvELAND'S ELECTION.
La Porte Herald Chronicle.
Since Clevelands election monuments have
been erected to Albert Sidney Johnston, John
c. Calhoun and Robert z. Lee. The latter has
been exalted above Washington by Southern or
ators and jeff Davis has been pronounced the
superior of Abraham Lincoln. The Southern
people pirate about their devotion to the Consti-
tuition, but II IS as they 1nterpretIt. When they
speak of the country they mean the South, and
when the flag is referred to, the one they have
uppermost in their minds and hearts, as shown
at Macon is the bonnie blue flag that bears the
single star.
HARRISON COUNTY QUIET AND PEAcEABLE.
Corydon Republican.
Lying newspaper correspondents, who
never in Harrison county, continue to write
sensational communications to the papers which
they represent, in regard to the white Caps"
and knights of the Switch" of this county,
detailing circumstances which never existed,
nor had foundation for existence, save in the
fertile imagination of a brain corrupted by
much lying. affected by excessive rotations
of villainous whisky. The society in this county
is as peaceful, aw-abiding, and as respectable
the
which have been rejecting the state of affairs
in this county could vastly improve in their
labors in correcting public morals. by turning
notorious violations of law which daily occur
under the shadows of their own Offices
GOOD REPUBLICAN DOCTRINE.
Shelbyvile Republican.
A free vote and fair count in every State of
the Union; the doctrine that the war settled
something, and precise definition of and in
sistance upon what that something meant; a
reputation of the treason recently put forth at
Macon, Ga, that secession was ever
will be right justifiable permissible; the doe
trine that the North is willing to concede the
South all its rights but not exclusive privileges
to be enjoyed by suppressing the rights of
others; healthy financial policy and a liberal
commercial policy. adapted to the welfare and
calculated to increase the prosperity of the
whole Union deadly hostility to socialism,
nihilism and other leprosies foreign to insti-
tutions; "a stanch adherence to all moral
forms and the doctrine that no particular inter-
est shall dominate parties and govern States
cities for its especial benefit; such are some of
the vital issues that belong to Republicanism
and which. when stubbornly pressed and in
sisted on, never fail to rally the rank and file
of that party which is nothing if not agressively
patriotic.
WHAT BREEDS LYNCH LAW.
Union City Eagle.
The sum and substance of the whole matter is
that people are losing their respect for judges
and iuries. The laws all right; they simply
are not enforced or are evaded. The legal tai
ent of America to-day appears to be devoted to
the task of rendering laws futile, by inventing
some method of evading their provisions and
penalties This is why mobs hang criminals
They have faith that justice will be melted
out to them.
Fort Wayne Gazette
Mob violence springs from the uncertain exc
cution of law. The law is weak through senti-
mentality of court and the gushing sympathizers
that are to be found in every community, and
upon the harmonious working of these rests the
responsibility for much of the crime that shocks
every patriot and phianthropist.
Delphi Journal
Can we wonder that criminals lynched in
Indiana? More strange, indeed, is it that five
times the number of lynchings not chroni-
cled Take the Mcclure as example.
A vindictive. cowardiy murderer Stays his aged
victim in cold blood, and. by technicalities and
scoundreiism on the part of his attorneys, the
law is not able to touch him. In a short time he
will walk the earth a free man. The case has
been duplicated in Indiana score of times in
recent years The next time there is deliber-
ate murder in Fulton county. watch out. With
Remember the Mcclure case" on their lips, AN
outraged community will take the law into
their own hands This is but the natural result.
The situation resolves itself into one of self
defense.
Until the courts show themselves competent
to handle criminals, until attorneys taught
that the people will no longer tolerate profess
sional scoundrelism as the legitimate defense of
thieves. highwaymen and murderers, Indiana
can expect lyncning to follow another at
not very long intervals.
The Price of the journal.
To the Editor Of the Indianapolis rna1.